Buoyed By Trump Victory, Conservative Women Plan Baby Boom While Liberals Go On Sex Strike
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Conservative women are hopeful of Trump sticking to his poll guarantees, especially improving tax laws, managing inflation, and curbing illegal immigration
Trump, 78, recaptured the White House on Wednesday by securing more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency. (Representative image)
Women of different political ideologies have responded to Republican Donald Trump’s historic victory in the United States presidential election in their own ways. While liberals have vowed to go on a sex strike, Conservative ladies are all set to make more babies.
Conservative women are hopeful of Trump sticking to his poll guarantees, especially improving tax laws, managing inflation, and curbing illegal immigration which would help them live a better life and plan more babies. Meanwhile, liberal women are worried of losing their reproductive rights and facing gender-bias.
“Me waiting for my husband to get home from the fire dept. to ask if we can have another baby now that we can afford it. Thank you Trump,” reads the caption of a TikTok clip posted on Wednesday by Illinois mom Tara Elsas and quoted by the New York Post.
Elsas, 30, can be seen dancing and twerking to Usher’s popular number “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” in the 11-second-long clip, which has crossed 66,000 views.
“The video was meant for fun, but there’s a lot of truth behind it,” Elsas told The Post. She and her husband, married for four years, have always wanted to give their 20-month-old daughter another sibling.
“But, as we all know, things are expensive, and my husband’s a firefighter, so his salary isn’t huge.”
The couple from Lincoln, IL, felt their dream of expanding their family was out of reach – until Trump’s decisive victory on Tuesday.
“It was a huge sigh of relief,” Elsas said of the election outcome. “(Trump’s) campaign promised to tackle inflation, and he has a plan to do that, which makes a real difference for us.”
She also highlighted Trump’s proposal to eliminate taxes on overtime, which is significant for their family as her husband often works extra hours. Additionally, “Extending the current Trump tax cuts is great for us.”
Elsas praised Trump’s commitment to lowering gas prices, increasing domestic drilling, and ending the Russia-Ukraine war, noting, “All these changes will help us afford another child without the fear of inflation continuing to rise, and ensure our child has the life they deserve.”
She also expressed a sense of security in bringing another baby into the world under a Trump presidency. “We feel more peace knowing he’ll keep boys out of my daughter’s locker room and sports,” Elsas said.
Other like-minded women flooded the comments section of her TikTok video, sharing similar sentiments.
Liberal Women Call Sex Strike
On the other hand, liberal women have come up with a unique form of protest to express their anguish and disappointment over the President-elect’s win.
Many women have now vowed to go on a sex strike following Trump’s victory in an election amid fears over its impact on abortion rights and protections for women, according to a report by The Telegraph. This unusual protest was inspired by the Korean feminist ‘4B movement’ that vows to withhold sex from men to redefine the gender power balance.
The ‘4B’ movement originated in South Korea in 2019 – where women took a new approach towards fighting patriarchy by “swearing off men” and refusing to be part of heterosexual relationships. Its proponents promote the four ‘no’s’ – no sex (bisekseu), no dating (biyeonae), no marriage (bihon) and no having children with men (bichulsan) – for the next four years while Trump is in office.
Trump’s Victory
Donald Trump was elected president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House and ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic institutions at home and relations abroad.
Trump, 78, recaptured the White House on Wednesday by securing more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, Edison Research projected, following a campaign of dark rhetoric that deepened the polarization in the country.
